Since getting my licence fifteen years ago, I’d say I’ve had about nine different cars. Is this an excessive number? I don’t know, but what I do know is that I just love cars. I’ve had a whole heap of different cars in the last fifteen years. I’ve owned utes, vans, convertibles, sports cars, luxury cars and run-of-the-mill everyday cars. While I do like cars where I can jazz things up a bit, I’d have to say there’s nothing better than having a really sturdy and reliable everyday car. I’ve had my everyday car for the last six years. Despite me calling it my ‘everyday car’, I don’t actually drive it every day.
I recently had to take my old faithful for a log book service. Adelaide drivers are recommended to service their car every 10,000km or every six months, depending on which comes first. Since I don’t drive my car too frequently, six months generally seems to be the option. It truly does amaze me that even when a car hasn’t been driven much, it can still have problems. I haven’t really found that with this car, hence why I call it my old faithful. At any given time, I’ll have a minimum of three cars under my ownership, so I can assure you the driving time is spread among them. The main issue is that even with the lack of road time some of these vehicles experience, some cars are just more susceptible to problems.
I remember I was once driving my sports car around and I started seeing signs my car needs a cooling repair. The aircon was blowing warm air, fluid was leaking and there was this weird smell coming from the vent. Luckily this happened right around the time I was due to take the car for a service, as this saved me the hassle of having to take my car into the workshop twice. One thing I know for certain is that old faithful would never have a problem like that.